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This seems like it can be easily avoided by just downloading the drivers without using the nvidia app.
Are you actually able to do that now? You used to not be able to or they were sufficiently hidden.
You can just use the manual search tool on nvidia to find your driver. My understanding is the 9 & 10 series support is going to end soon.
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/
When you run the installer you have a choice to install their app or not.
They’ve never been hidden. You just go to the website, put in your model and download it. There’s apps that do it for you now which is where this must be coming from. Still doesn’t change the fact you can directly download the driver.
Windows will do it for you as well but you have to enable it.
That’s what in used to use but there are some features you can’t access without the physx components so I get the whole package now. For baseline it’s good for sure.
Maybe they were harder to find on their site like a decade ago when I first got an Nvidia card and I just never tried looking again.
Nope. Always been that way. Enter model, choose platform, download drivers. Ive had to do it for at least a decade and a half since the nvidia program has never not borked out trying to update drivers.
you are speaking about the advanced search page, but I don't even know how would I find it without my bookmark
lol. Yeah navigating any driver website is a pita. I just search nVidia driver download and it drops me there.
It’s been the same for 20 years at least. My first nVidia card was a geforce2 but I had an integrated SOC one that borrowed main board memory before that called a RIVA TNT 2. Prior to that had an ISA SVGA card but can’t remember who made it:
They're hidden in the same sense that the real "download" button is hidden on most torrent sites.